Well, given that it’s a Sunday and that I usually don’t do any heavy duty science or medicine posts on Saturdays and Sundays, it looked like a perfectly good way for me to waste some time in a (hopefully) entertaining way for my readers, particularly since the questions are actually pretty good ones.

If it ever became a choice between blogging and my marriage. (Hard as it is to believe, there are some things way more important than blogging.)

If it ever became a choice between blogging and my job. (Although ScienceBlogs does give me some minor renumeration for my efforts, it’s nothing I could ever hope to live on; all it really takes care of is the cable modem, some beer, and the occasional DVD or CD. If my real overlords–as opposed to my Seed overlords–ever said to put a cork in it, I’d really have very little choice but to stop. Ditto if I ever found that the blog was seriously affecting my career.)

Insolent (Of course, but respectfully so–most of the time, anyway; I make exceptions for Holocaustdeniers and someothers who just don’t deserve my respect)

Erudite (translation: lots of big words, many unnecessary)

Detailed (translation: long-winded)

Silly (Occasionally, anyway. Come on, you’ve seen my EneMan posts, haven’t you? And, although it probably strikes fear into the hearts of my Seed overlords, the Hitler Zombie is waiting in the wings; indeed, he may even make an appearance as early next week.)

1 aspect of blogging you find difficult:
Letting the blog go silent for a day or two every now and then, even now when I’m busy reviewing NIH grants for a study section, have a paper that I have to retool and resubmit, and have a final report due for the Army this Friday. (Maybe blogging is a bit of an addiction.)

9 blogs you read outside the ScienceBlogs universe:
I keep track of way more than 9 blogs outside of the ScienceBlogs universe and, oddly enough, several blogs that I used to be a regular reader of outside the SB universe are among the newbies, but here are a few who haven’t been assimilated or are not about the correct subject matter ever to be assimilated (in alphabetical order, with, sadly, many worthy blogs that I frequent via my RSS feed aggregator left out):